After six months of war, actors from the Mykolaiv Art Drama Theatre return to the stage. Their performance just happens to be underground in a bomb shelter.
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Actors in a heavily bombarded city in Ukraine are returning to the stage, putting on their first performance since war broke out in an underground shelter converted into a tiny theatre.A temporary stage with limited seating has been set up in an underground bomb shelterOn Thursday, a few dozen theatregoers descended steep concrete steps into a subterranean venue for the opening night of a show put on by the Mykolaiv Art Drama Theatre.
The troupe's usual venue, an ornate 450-seat hall, has been closed due to the six-month war that has seen Mykolaiv, a strategic southern port, repeatedly targeted by Russian forces. "Of course, many plays have been cancelled, because some male actors went away to fight, some went abroad as temporary refugees," actress Violeta Mamykina said in her cramped dressing room before going on stage.
The theatre manager says that the tiny underground theatre provides "art therapy" for the people of Mykolaiv.Theatre manager Artem Svystun described the performance as "art therapy", giving locals who have stayed on in the city some brief respite from the stress of the war.Read more on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
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